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(11) EP 0 276 930 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
12.07.1989 Bulletin 1989/28

(43) Date of publication A2:
03.08.1988 Bulletin 1988/31

(21) Application number: 88300323.8

(22) Date of filing: 15.01.1988
(51) International Patent Classification (IPC)4G07C 9/00, E05B 49/00
(84) Designated Contracting States:
CH DE ES FR GB IT LI NL

(30) Priority: 28.01.1987 US 7844

(71) Applicant: EMHART INDUSTRIES, INC.
Towson, Maryland 21204 (US)

(72) Inventors:
  • Ward, Kathleen E.
    Norfolk Virginia 23505 (US)
  • Blewitt, Mary E.
    South Port Connecticut 06490 (US)

(74) Representative: Randall, John Walter 
Emhart Patents Department Emhart International Ltd. 177 Walsall Road
Birmingham B42 1BP
Birmingham B42 1BP (GB)


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    (54) Electronic locking system


    (57) A management apparatus (4) for a locking system (10) includes a computer memory (46), first computer means having the locks of the system, and second computer means (98) for entering data in the computer memory defining the inter-relationships of the doors, which data including the doors of the system which are accessed by other of the doors. A third computer means (120, 122) lists in the computer memory selected ones of the locks of the doors to be operated by each of the keys, and a fourth computer means (129) determines if a path exists according to the data from an outer limit of the locking system to each of the doors selected for operation by the key either directly or via other of the doors selected for operation by the key. Another means (141, 300) determines if an external door or external doors of the system provide access via a path either directly to each of the internal doors or via other of the internal doors of the system to each internal door of the system.







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